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ad·a·mant
(ăd′ə-mənt, -mănt′)adj.
Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding.
n.
1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
2. An extremely hard substance.
[From Middle English, a hard precious stone, from Old French adamaunt, from Latin adamās, adamant-, from Greek, unconquerable, hard steel, diamond; see demə- in Indo-European roots.]
ad′a·mance, ad′a·man·cy n.
ad′a·mant·ly adv.
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adamant
(ˈædəmənt)adj
1. unshakable in purpose, determination, or opinion; unyielding
2. a less common word for adamantine1
n
3. any extremely hard or apparently unbreakable substance
4. (European Myth & Legend) a legendary stone said to be impenetrable, often identified with the diamond or loadstone
[Old English: from Latin adamant-, stem of adamas, from Greek; literal meaning perhaps: unconquerable, from a-1 + daman to tame, conquer]
ˈadamantly adv
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ad•a•mant
(ˈæd ə mənt, -ˌmænt)adj.
1. utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible.
2. hard; adamantine.
n. 3. any unyieldingly hard substance.
4. a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond.
[1350–1400; < Old French adamaunt < Latin adamant-, adamas hard metal, diamond < Greek]
ad•a•man•cy (ˈæd ə mən si) ad`a•mance, n.
ad′a•mant•ly, adv.
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Noun | 1. | adamant - very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem atomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds black diamond, carbonado - an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing transparent gem - a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion |
Adj. | 1. | adamant - impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" inflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose" |
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adamant
adjective determined, firm, fixed, stiff, rigid, set, relentless, stubborn, uncompromising, insistent, resolute, inflexible, unrelenting, inexorable, unyielding, intransigent, immovable, unbending, obdurate, unshakable The minister is adamant that he will not resign.
yielding, compromising, flexible, susceptible, responsive, receptive, easy-going, lax, compliant, pliant, tensile, tractable
yielding, compromising, flexible, susceptible, responsive, receptive, easy-going, lax, compliant, pliant, tensile, tractable
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adamant
adjectiveFirmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will:
adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, grim, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding.
Idiom: stubborn as a mule.
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Translations
عَنِيد، صَلْب، مُتَصَلِّب
neústupnýpevný
ubøjeligurokkelig
tántoríthatatlan
ósveigjanlegur
tvirtas
nelokāms
neoblomný
adamant
[ˈædəmənt] ADJ (fig) → firme, inflexiblehe was adamant in his refusal → se mantuvo firme or inflexible en su negativa
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
adamant
[ˈædəmənt] adj → inflexibleto be adamant about sth → être inflexible au sujet de qch
to be adamant that ... → maintenir de manière catégorique que ...
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
adamant
adj → hart; refusal also → hartnäckig; to be adamant → unnachgiebig sein, darauf bestehen; since you’re adamant → da Sie darauf bestehen; he was adamant about going → er bestand hartnäckig darauf zu gehen; he was adamant in his refusal → er weigerte sich hartnäckig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
adamant
(ˈӕdəmənt) adjective determined or insistent. an adamant refusal.
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